Memorial

Happy Sunday and Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

I was thinking about Memorial Day and decided to research it.  I found out that it was originally called Decoration Day and was established to commemorate U.S. men and women who died while in military service to our country.  And all these years I thought it was a chance to eat some good bar-b-que and get a new outfit!  LOL!

The word memorial means, something, such as a monument or holiday, intended to celebrate or honor the memory of a person or an event.  Seems like we've  moved away from the meaning of the day.  We do that sometimes.  I believe that's why GOD was so adamant about telling the Israelites to remember.  Remember where they came from, remember the Lord who brought them out of Egypt, remember the Creator while they were young.  We have a problem remembering.

In Joshua chapter 4, God opened to Jordan like he'd opened the Red Sea. He commanded Joshua to have a representative from each tribe go down and get a stone from the river bed.  He took those stones and made a memorial.   Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future your children will ask, ‘What do these stones mean?’ Then you can tell them, ‘This is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ For the Lord your God dried up the river right before your eyes, and he kept it dry until you were all across, just as he did at the Red Sea when he dried it up until we had all crossed over. He did this so all the nations of the earth might know that the Lord’s hand is powerful, and so you might fear the Lord your God forever.”

We forget so many important things. Let's take time today to remember! Remember we are so blessed.  I know there are still things we desire and perhaps even need.  But we  are blessed, men and woman have given there very lives for the freedoms we enjoy.  We can go where we want, live where we want, be what we want.  We can sleep at night we have food to eat.  We have friends and family.  We have issues and we have problems, but we have so much to be thankful for.  This Memorial Day, please take a moment to remember, I will.

Love and prayers, Cynthia